Bravo To Bush For The Sino-Indo-U.S. Axis

Washington is abuzz as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives at the White House tomorrow and addresses a joint session of Congress. This is the backdrop against which Indians emerge as the exception in the poll of 17,000 people done by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre. Indians like America the most — 71 per cent, second only to Americans, themselves, at 83 per cent (vs. only 59 per cent of Canadians who think well of the U.S.). Indians disagree the most that America is unilateral: 63 per cent say it does care for their concerns (vs. 19 per cent of Canadians who think so). India is the only nation, besides America, where a plurality agrees with Bush that the war on Iraq has made the world safer. This despite the fact that three-fourths also say India was right not to have joined the war. Indians are the only ones to name America as a land of opportunity for the young. This is quite a turnaround. Pro-Soviet India used to be reflexively anti-American. Recently released papers show Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger calling Indira Gandhi "a bitch" and urging China to attack India in 1971. An anti-India resolution was barely defeated in Congress in 1995. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1121464223770&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

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